(24 Apr 2019, 6:22 am)Ianthegoon wrote .... but removes the express option to Peterlee!Not at all!
(OK, so perhaps I'd far rather be on my way to Durham than to Peterlee!!)
I think talking about "giving passengers ... express option to Durham" is really just smoke and mirrors on a forum such as this, where, from the first half of your answer, it's clear that that's just how it drops out operationally from the new interworking, and that there'll be winners and losers on the passenger front.
The service could have operated direct into Park Lane with no need to serve Burdon Road and Holmeside at all, like the X7 used to do.
It is clear that there is a benefit of serving Holmeside and that's why the services have been routed like this. The existing Prince Bishops 20/20A pick up far more passengers at Holmeside than the Wear Xpress X6/X7 do.
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